Proposed Amendments to the Resolution on the War Issue

#PUBLICATION NOTE

This edition of Proposed Amendments to the Resolution on the War Issue has been prepared and revised for digital publication by the Institute of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism under the Central Committee of the Communist Party in Switzerland on the basis of the edition published in the Collected Works of Lenin, Fourth English Edition, Volume 23, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1964.

#INTRODUCTION NOTE

These are Comrade Nikolaj Lenin's proposed amendments to the draft resolution proposed by the Centre of the Swiss Social-Democratic Party at the Zurich Cantonal Party Congress, held in Töss on the 11th and 12th of February, 1917. Lenin's amendments were written in Zurich, Switzerland between the 9th and 11th of February, 1917. They were first published in the February 1917 leaflet Against the Lie of Homeland Defence.

#Workers and oppressed people of the world, unite!

#PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE RESOLUTION ON THE WAR ISSUE

#Nikolaj Lenin

#9th to 11th of February, 1917

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#1

Party parliamentary deputies shall be under obligation to reject, stating their principled grounds, all war demands and credits and insist on demobilization.

#2

No civil peace; intensification of principled struggle against all bourgeois political parties, also against nationalist-Grütlian ideas in the labour movement and the Party.

#3

Systematic revolutionary propaganda in the army.

#4

Support of all revolutionary movements and of the struggle against the war and against one's own government in every warring country.

#5

Assistance to every revolutionary mass action in Switzerland — strikes, demonstrations — and their development into open armed struggle.

#6

The Party shall proclaim the socialist transformation of Switzerland to be the aim of the revolutionary mass struggle decided upon at the 1915 Party Congress at Aarau. This revolution is the only, and really effective, way of liberating the working class from the horror of high prices and hunger, and is essential for the complete elimination of militarism and war.